On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Neil Van Dyke <n...@neilvandyke.org> wrote:
>
> 1. You are using eval because you *necessarily* have arbitrary Racket code
> coming into your application from outside at run time? Or because the
> libraries you are using seem to want you to use "eval"? The former reason
> is legitimate, but rare. If the latter reason, there should be a better
> way. ("eval" is almost always a bad idea, except for when it's
> fundamentally necessary. Do not be misled by gesticulating CS 101
> lecturers; they are talking about theory.)
I think there are genuine uses for things like `eval` to support
reloading code/plugins/templates as well, which always at least
implicitly involves `eval`.
Sam
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